MOSCOW, Sep 21 Former world boxing champion in five weight categories, American Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced that he was in talks with the former champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in two divisions, Irishman Conor McGregor, about holding a second fight in 2023. In August 2017, Mayweather defeated McGregor in a boxing fight by technical knockout in the tenth round . At that time, Internet users purchased a pay-per-view broadcast of the fight 6.5 million times, the cost of one broadcast was 99.99 dollars, the amount of fees exceeded 80 million dollars. «I want to go there (to Saitama) this weekend and have some fun (against Japan's Mikura Asakura. Then I have another exhibition fight in Dubai in November and our fight with Conor McGregor in 2023. We don't know if it will be an exhibition fight or a real fight. But there have been talks about , etc. I'd prefer an exhibition one. I don't like fights where I can take real damage. I don't mind getting into fights with guys like Conor McGregor and youtubers who don't really hit hard, but anything where I can hurt myself,» Mayweather was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.
